Neil Diamond - Hot August Night

Tracklist

A1	Prologue
A2	Crunchy Granola Suite
A3	Done Too Soon / Dialogue
A4	Solitary Man
A5	Cherry Cherry
A6	Sweet Caroline
B1	Porcupine Pie
B2	You're So Sweet
B3	Red Red Wine
B4	Soggy Pretzels
B5	And The Grass Won't Pay No Mind
B6	Shilo
B7	Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon
C1	Play Me
C2	Canta Libre
C3	Morningside
C4	Song Sung Blue
C5	Cracklin' Rosie
D1	Holly Holy
D2	I Am... I Said
D3	Soolaimon / Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show
D4	(Encore)

Companies, etc.

• Manufactured By – TELDEC »Telefunken-Decca« Schallplatten GmbH
• Recorded At – The Greek Theatre

Credits

• Art Direction – George Osaki
• Bass – Reinie Press
• Conductor – Lee Holdridge
• Drums – Dennis St. John
• Engineer – Armin Steiner
• Guitar – Danny Nicholson, Neil Diamond, Richard Bennett
• Guitar, Vibraphone – Emory Gordy*
• Keyboards – Alan Lindgren
• Liner Notes – Karen Shearer
• Percussion – Jefferson Kewley
• Photography By – Ed Caraeff, Tom Bert
• Producer – Tom Catalano
• Strings – Alice Ober, Baldassare Ferlazzo, David Turner, Donald Bagley*, Giacinto Nardulli, Haim Shtrum, Henry Ferber, Hyman Goodman, Jay Rosen, Jerome Kessler, Jess Bourgeois, Jesse Ehrlich, John De Voogdt, Linn Subotnick, Marylin Baker, Myron Sandler, Nathan Gershman, Paulo Alencar, Philip Candreva, Philip Goldberg, Ralf Shaeffer, Raymond Kelley*, Richard Kaufman, Robert Lipsett, Ronald Folsom, Salvatore Crimi, Samuel Boghossian, Shari Zippert, Sidney Sharp, Sven Reher, Tibor Zelig, Timothy Barr*, Walter Rower, Walter Wiemeyer, Wilbert Nuttycombe, William Henderson
• Written-By – Neil Diamond

Notes

℗ 1972
Manufactured in Western Germany.
Recorded in concert at the Greek Theatre, Los Angeles on Thursday, August 24, 1972
Laminated gatefold cover with yellow box hyping titles "and other great NEIL DIAMOND HITS"

This version has the suffix (DX) at the Categorys on the labels, while Neil Diamond - Hot August Night states no suffix there.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Rights Society (boxed): GEMA
• Other (Category disc 1): 6.28166-1 (DX)
• Other (Category disc 2): 6.28166-2 (DX)
• Matrix / Runout (Side 1): (Stamped) Manufactured in Germany (P) 1972 6385-A
• Matrix / Runout (Side 2): (Stamped) Manufactured in Germany (P) 1972 6385-B
• Matrix / Runout (Side 3): (Stamped) Manufactured in Germany (P) 1973 6385-C II
• Matrix / Runout (Side 4): (Stamped) Manufactured in Germany (P) 1972 6385-D
• Other: Probably a stamp failure on side 3 saying (P) 1973

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
MCA 2-8000	Neil Diamond	Hot August Night ‎(2xLP, Album, Gat)	MCA Records	MCA 2-8000	US	1972
112 330-1	Neil Diamond	Hot August Night ‎(2xLP, RM, 180)	MCA Records	112 330-1	UK	Unknown
MAPS 6385-D/1-2	Neil Diamond	Hot August Night ‎(2xLP, Album, Gat)	UNI Records	MAPS 6385-D/1-2	Germany	1973
S-50.072	Neil Diamond	Hot August Night ‎(2xLP, Gat)	MCA Records	S-50.072	Spain	1973
MCA 2-8000	Neil Diamond	Hot August Night ‎(2xLP, Gat)	MCA Records	MCA 2-8000	Malaysia	1972

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